"Include me out."
Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #3 (December 2000)
"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
James Thurber "American author (1894-1961)” quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail May 30, 2013
"Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it."
Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) in Duck Soup (this line is widely quoted including online but usually inaccurately, including the child being 5)
"The habit of contemplation, the ability to sit down in front of something and care enough to let it speak for itself, cannot be acquired soon enough."
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb p. xiii.
“so much of a gentleman that even his faux pas were well-bred.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Club of Queer Trades (re the fictional "Lord Beaumont of Foxwood")
"Ours is a rich and wonderful world, and there are stories everywhere. Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough."
Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
"‘It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,’ said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully, ‘for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.’”
L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."
Alistair Cooke, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995